Thyroid Events

Upcoming Webinars

Sunday, March 24, 2024

1:00 pm ET

Ultrasound-guided Radiofrequency Ablation of Thyroid Nodules (Medical Webinar)

This is the medical version of last year’s presentation  and is directed at the medical community.  Everyone is welcome to join this webinar, however, priority will be given to questions from medical practitioners in the Q & A session immediately following the presentation.

Dr Jesse Pasternak performed the first RFA treatment last April in Toronto…

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He is an endocrine surgeon specializing in the surgical management of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal tumors.  After obtaining his undergraduate degree at McGill University, he completed his medical school and residency at McMaster University in Hamilton.  He then moved to San Francisco, California where he trained as an Orlo Clark Fellow in Endocrine Surgery and Oncology at UCSF. Dr Pasternak also completed a master’s degree (MPH) at Harvard University with a focus in epidemiology.  As a surgeon at the University Health Network, his clinical focus is minimally invasive endocrine surgery. As a researcher, he studies clinical endocrine surgery and health outcomes.

Note: This webinar was not recorded.

Dr. Jesse Pasternak

Sunday, April 28, 2024

1:00 pm ET

Rethinking Hypothyroidism (Medical Version)

This is the medical version of last year’s presentation and is directed at the medical community. In this webinar, Dr. Bianco discusses his book “Rethinking Hypothyroidism: Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do” and his research, and is followed by a Question & Answer session. Everyone is welcome to join this webinar, however, priority will be given to questions from medical practitioners in the Q & A session.

Dr. Antonio Bianco is a professor of medicine… 

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and a member of the Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition at the University of Chicago, where he runs a laboratory funded by the National Institutes of Health to study thyroid hormones. Dr. Bianco is also a former president of the American Thyroid Association.” Dr. Bianco has written a book entitled, “Rethinking Hypothyroidism: Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do”.

Registration available in early April 2024.

Dr. Antonio C. Bianco

Sunday, May 26, 2024

4:00 pm ET

Mental Health and Thyroid Disease

 

Dr. Jack R. Wall

TFC Webinars are recorded and can be viewed at:  Thyroid Webinars

May 25-31, 2024

World Thyroid Day and

International Thyroid Awareness Week

World Thyroid Day, May 25th, and International Thyroid Awareness Week, May 25-31, were developed by Thyroid Federation International (TFI). They are celebrated every year by Thyroid patient groups around the world.  The theme for 2024 is “Thyroid diseases are NCDs (Noncommunicable diseases)”. Read more about this: https://thyroid-fed.org/international-thyroid-awareness-week/

June 1-30

June is Thyroid Month in Canada

Help spread awareness of Thyroid Disease in June!

June 2024 – date to be announced

Thyroid Foundation of Canada Annual General Meeting

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